Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Central London is £567, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 132 162
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 6 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £526 £405 £583
25th Percentile £527 £469 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -9.43% +26.19%
75th Percentile £632 £650 £756
90th Percentile £695 £665 £790
London median daily rate £575 £650 £620
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.84% +7.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,837 2,178 3,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 94.33% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 1,415 2,210
10th Percentile £316 £363 £339
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £778 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 12
10th Percentile £18.69 £20.36 £14.42
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.20 £20.09
Median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% -1.41% -14.46%
75th Percentile £41.81 £41.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.93 £115.00 £67.13
London median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -13.57% -6.67% +15.21%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +9 6 £567 -5.58% 12
Senior Data Engineer
London

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, Senior Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Big Data
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) dbt
5 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) ChatGPT
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (16.67%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Parquet
2 1 (16.67%) Pentaho
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft